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SignalFx was founded in 2013 to enable customers to gather and monitor key information for both their application code and infrastructure. The efficient metrics storage technology enables both high cardinality of metrics as well as the no-sample method of gathering every APM trace. This combination of efficiency and standardization is exposed through the SignalFlow language to allow access and manipulation of the vast amount of metric data.

The ITIC 2020 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Report released in April found that reliability declined in 67 percent of servers over four years old when corporations failed to retrofit or upgrade the hardware to accommodate increased workloads. This highlights the pressing need for hardware monitor solutions and the need for immediate alerting mechanisms to ensure the longest possible lifespan for hardware.

At iLert we embrace infrastructure as code and try to automate our processes whereever possible. This might reach from niftly little bash scripts to fully blown Terraform projects that spin up whole environments with as little as terraform apply on a CLI. With Hashicorp’s Terraform you can make use of infrastructure as code to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service.

In support of modern application development built on CI/CD, containers and open source, Google Cloud launched Artifact Registry (now generally available), a new artifact management solution. Sysdig helps DevOps teams using Artifact Registry confidently secure the build pipeline with comprehensive image scanning that identifies container vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to reduce risk.

We know, there’s a lot to love about the legendary GitKraken Git GUI. 😉 So much so, that you might not even know about some of the magical capabilities hiding beneath your fingertips. Our #GitKrakenTip series is meant to shed light on the unique delights offered by your favorite coding Kraken. The GitKraken graph offers a beautiful, technicolor visualization of your Git repository, but sometimes, you need to see more details related to your commits.

2020 has been a significant year for Africa’s cloud and data centre ecosystem. Considerable new investment is going into carrier-neutral data centres across Sub-Saharan Africa and slowly but surely the adoption of cloud services is gathering pace. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has led many businesses to accelerate their adoption of cloud services in order to help them operate during these difficult times.

As businesses continue to grow, the diversity and complexity of infrastructure components, applications and processes increase. It is important for the IT team to manage interactions with these hybrid components seamlessly for the effective functioning of the organization. By 2021, over 75% of midsize and large organizations will have adopted a multi cloud and/or hybrid IT strategy – Gartner Introducing Orchestration center for all your integration needs.

Mattermost release v5.29 is generally available today. In addition to offering bug fixes for increased stability, the new quality release features the general availability of a pre-installed incident management application, channel moderation settings, and Mattermost Omnibus.

With the U.S. national security plan highlighting the need for both information dominance and protection, the Department of Defense is considering plans like modernizing military networks to ensure more effective communications between warfighters and allies in the harshest of environments and recruiting the specialized talent required for battlefield domination. To begin, the DoD must bridge the gap between its ambitious vision and the capabilities of current military networks.

Rundeck has now joined forces with PagerDuty. What pulled us together? Our shared vision for improving the work lives of those who run modern digital services. As a co-founder of Rundeck, I’d like to provide my perspective on why Rundeck becoming part of the PagerDuty family is a perfect fit for our collective user communities. No matter if you are on a “you build it, you run it” DevOps team or part of a centralized Ops team—operations work has always been difficult.